World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While other crops like corn have exponentially benefited from hybrid technology over the years, challenges with wheat production systems have presented barriers to consistently and cost-effectively leveraging such game-changing technology – ultimately limiting the ability to deliver meaningful yield improvements.

Technology 52

Technology Yield Soil Science Seeding 52

Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sustainable agriculture company Pivot Bio presented abstracts on its breakthrough crop nutrition technologies at the 2023 International Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).

Technology 119

Technology Soil Science Science Mechanics 119

Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

The three team members—Rudman, Oliver Aurand and Kevin Reiss, who met in 2023 on a nearby farm—bring backgrounds in soil science, anthropology and just over a decade of combined field hand experience. Their efforts have yielded varying degrees of success. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone.

Grain 130

Grain Farming Farming Food 130

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Without well-nourished soil, “the global issues of climate change and food security cannot be addressed,” says soil scientist Dr. Rattan Lal. He’s the recipient of the World Food Prize and a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University. And they’re pushing innovation.

Food 122

Food Ranching Grain Crop Rotation 122

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth.

Food 137

Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 137

Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. There was no blueprint for our business model,” which sought to change the world by improving the lives of hundreds of millions of growers who work just a few acres. The latter are to be used only when absolutely needed.

Pesticide 74

Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 74

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre. She does yield a few pages to sustainable farming practices, like soil management, though these are more buzzwords than insights.

Food 129

Food Farming Farming Seeding 129